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President Wilson's War Industries Board brought to Washington two men destined to play a large part in General Johnson's later life. One was the board's chairman, Mr. Baruch. The other was George Nelson Peek of Moline, Ill., who had spent 25 years with plow-making concerns in the Midwest. Meeting for the first time under Wartime pressure, this trio found that they all thought and acted pretty much alike about their joint problems. Each spoke his mind bluntly. Each dug hard for facts. Each could put his theories into practice. A three-cornered friendship...
...Plow to Read is intended for a text-book and ought to be in use. It wd. debunk 80% of the idiocy in teaching literature in high-schools and colleges and 81 and one-fourth percent of literary journalists. Literary teaching and criticism ought to get the best stuff to the reader with the least interposition of second-hand yawp. crit/ic
Spring, marching swiftly north across the land last week, found teams hitched to harrows and fields being broken, plow horses streaking the countryside with new furrows, tractors barking and chattering with lusty strength. Corn was about to go into the fat black acres of Illinois and Iowa. South Carolinians had their cotton planted; their February oats already sprouting. Seed beds for tobacco were being prepared as far north as Connecticut. Spring wheat was being sowed in Kansas now that the thaw had come & gone. Sows had littered in Iowa. John Farmer was starting his 1933 crops on the same haphazard...
Prong No. 2 is the Domestic Allotment Plan refurbished. It permits the Secretary to pay a farmer who reduces his 1933 crop what the law euphemistically calls a "benefit." How this crop cut is to be effected is left to the Secretary. The 1931 proposal to plow up every third row of cotton might be one method. Another might involve allowing a percentage of a crop to go unharvested. The farmer agreeing to cut his 1933 production would get a Government certificate on which he could borrow at the bank, the loan being repaid after the harvest when the Secretary...
...give piano recitals. U. S. audiences took instantly to Ossip Salomonowitsch Gabrilowitsch. He became a fixture on the U. S. musical scene, married Clara Clemens, Mark Twain's daughter, in 1918 became conductor of the Detroit Symphony. When Violinist Albert Spalding started to plow out his career, he reversed the route Gabrilowitsch had taken. In the U. S. Spalding found that it was a handicap to be the handsome, athletic-looking son of a rich U. S. sporting-goods manufacturer. Audiences, he said, seemed to expect him to come on the platform in a baseball suit. Albert Spalding packed...